ADOPTABLE TERMS OF SERVICE

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These rules apply to those who purchase my products.

Please feel free to model your own rules off of these if it helps you.

EDITED 10/24/22: Commercial rights purchases now allowed for non-cs, rules written to clarify.

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In order to complete any purchase regarding my products
You will be prompted with a form where you will sign your username, legal name & paypal email.



RESELLING/TRADING

  • My designs may be re-sold, traded, and gifted.
  • Resales must match the original purchase value of the adopt, with additives only for commissions purchased or art personally made.
  • Designs received in a trade may be resold following the above rule. Do not calculate a trade resale's value based on anything but the adopt's original sale value + commissioned / personal art added.
    *Sales of traded designs require an appraisal from me UNLESS you include the original sales post of the adopt in your resale, which will have the value.
  • Designs received as gifts may also be resold, following the above rules. Please use extreme caution when gifting designs, and be sure that you would not be upset to have a gift be sold.

CO-OWNING

  • When owning any design by me, I will not acknowledge co-owners. Designs can be shared, but one person must be acknowledged as the sole owner.

RECOLORING/EDITING

  • All edits to designs by me and/or within my closed species (MYO included) must be run by me for confirmation.
  • You are allowed to edit on top of my artwork, with proper credit toward myself for the original art, and you for the edits. Regarding MYO from my species, please consult the individual artists for permission to edit their work.
  • Do not commission others to make edits on my work, even for clothing additions. All edit work must be free/personal.
  • Do not ever delete the original adopt, even if you edit it. Further edits will always be based on the original when considered for approval.
  • Edits to closed species must closely follow this guide (toyhou.se/~bulletins/141352.ed…) and be properly approved by me.

PRODUCT QUANTITY

  • Each purchase, unless specified specifically on the sales post, is a single design for one character.
  • Twins may be created, ONLY if they are kept as a single design & owned by a single person. They cannot be sold or traded separately, unless both are officially paid for.
  • You are allowed to create "alternate forms" of a character provided you have the permission of other artists / species owners involved, and as long as each form is still kept with the original design.

COMMERCIAL RIGHTS

  • Sale of designs are PERSONAL unless you explicitly pay the COMMERCIAL fee.
  • Without rights purchased, you are not allowed to use my art of the design for profit in any way. 
  • Without rights purchased, are not allowed to include my designs in games/comics/videos and other mass media consumed materials for profit.
  • PERSONAL rights encompasses all products made for personal use, and not for profit, including but not limited to: physical items such as charms and pins for personal collection, comics free to access and not licensed or published, and livestream assets for streams that are NOT monetized in any way.
  • Commercial rights are only available for purchase with designs outside of my Closed Species.
  • All sales where commercial rights are available for purchase will be in the sale listing.
  • Commercial rights may be purchased later to all designs where the purchase of commercial rights is made available in the original sales post.

RE-POSTING

  • Only the purchaser of my work may re-post the art they've received, and public re-posts are required to have some form of watermark and/or resizing to avoid easy thievery.

PROHIBITED CONTENT

  • Publicized art of my designs that include subjects such as:
    sexual artwork with children, hate speech & racism in any real world context,
    Will NOT be tolerated, and you will be warned.

Failure to follow these rules will result in a warning, which will become a block/blacklist if rules are repeatedly broken.

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NovaWolfYT07's avatar

Question cuz I'm curious, if someone got a Myo and made the design themselves in the species, could they market it(merch, in videogames, vtubing) while saying in the description !part of closed species XYZ, don't make your own! ? And also if it would be a free videogame for example, it would count as personal art?